page_title: List of root vegetables
section_title: Modified plant stem
hierarchical_section_title: List of root vegetables / List of root vegetables / Modified plant stem
context_page_description: Root vegetables are underground plant parts eaten by humans as food. Although botany distinguishes true roots from non-roots, the term "root vegetable" is applied to all these types in agricultural and culinary usage.
  Root vegetables are generally storage organs, enlarged to store energy in the form of carbohydrates. They differ in the concentration and the balance among starches, sugars, and other types of carbohydrate. Of particular economic importance are those with a high carbohydrate concentration in the form of starch; starchy root vegetables are important staple foods, particularly in tropical regions, overshadowing cereals throughout much of Central Africa, West Africa and Oceania, where they are used directly or mashed to make fufu or poi.
  Many root vegetables keep well in root cellars, lasting several months. This is one way of storing food for use long after harvest, which is especially important in nontropical latitudes, where winter is traditionally a time of little to no harvesting. There are also season extension methods that can extend the harvest throughout the winter, mostly through the use of polytunnels.
  Adherents of Jainism do not eat root vegetables.
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  Amorphophallus konjac (konjac)
  Colocasia esculenta (taro)
  Eleocharis dulcis (Chinese water chestnut)
  Ensete spp. (enset)
  Nelumbo nucifera (lotus)
  Nymphaea spp. (waterlily)
  Pteridium esculentum
  Sagittaria spp. (arrowhead or wapatoo)
  Typha spp.
  Xanthosoma spp. (malanga, cocoyam, tannia, yautia and other names)
  Colocasia antiquorum (eddoe or Japanese potato)
  Rhizome
  Curcuma longa (turmeric)
  Panax ginseng (ginseng)
  Arthropodium spp. (rengarenga, vanilla lily, and others)
  Canna spp. (canna)
  Cordyline fruticosa (ti)
  Maranta arundinacea (arrowroot)
  Nelumbo nucifera (lotus root)
  Typha spp. (cattail or bulrush)
  Zingiber officinale (ginger, galangal)
  Tuber
  Apios americana (hog potato or groundnut)
  Cyperus esculentus (tigernut or chufa)
  Dioscorea spp. (yams, ube)
  Dioscorea polystachya (Chinese yam, white name or white ñame)
  Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem artichoke or sunchoke)
  Hemerocallis spp. (daylily)
  Lathyrus tuberosus (earthnut pea)
  Oxalis tuberosa (oca or New Zealand yam)
  Plectranthus edulis and P. esculentus (kembili, dazo, and others)
  Solanum tuberosum (potato)
  Stachys affinis (Chinese artichoke or crosne)
  Tropaeolum tuberosum (mashua or añu)
  Ullucus tuberosus (ulluku)
caption: Yam tubers
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